Machine for making show-cards or tickets.



A. LEVECQUE.

' MACHINE FOR MAKING SHOW CARDS 0R TICKETS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 19, 1912.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 18, 1916.

Application filed September 19, 1912. Serial No. 721,305.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ANATOLE Lnvnoonn, a citizen of the Republic of France, residing at Paris, in the Republic of France, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Making Show-Cards or Tickets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to amachine for manufacturing cardboard show cards or tickets in which characters of colored paper are cut out and simultaneously impressed into the cardboard constituting the show card or ticket by type characters having cutting edges.

The present invention is more particularly described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a section on the line is-w of Fig. 2; Fig. 2, a. plan view-on the'line yg of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a detail of an operating lever; Fig. 4, a section ofa character.

The machine consists of a base 1 upon which two uprights 2 are mounted. A block 3 is carried by a bar 1 which is perforated and adapted to slide over the uprights 2. This block is supported on springs 8 coiled about the uprights 2. On the bar 1 a plate 5 is arranged which can slide relatively to the bar 4. The plate 5 carries-two cams 7 and has slots 6 through which the uprights 2 pass. It will be seen thatby displacing the plate 5 the block 3 will be forced clownward against the springs 8. A beam 9 is mounted on the upper ends of the pillars or uprights 2 and secured thereto by nuts 10.- Two screwed studs 11 are screwed through the beam 9 and have squared portions 12 which, as seen in Fig. 3, can -'adjustably engage with polygonally internally notched spanner arms 13.

The base 1 is provided with a surface plate 14 on which slides a carriage 15 guided by flanges 16 arranged on the base 1. The carriage 15 has uprights 17 arranged on it which carry bars 18, 19, forming a composing stick with the bars 21, 22. The bars 18, 19, are supported on the uprights 17 by the intermediary of springs 20. The bar 21 can be displaced relatively to the bar 22 and secured in position by nuts 23. This adjustment is for the purpose of adapting the device for use with type characters having different heights.

The type characters may be of theform shown in Fig. 4 consisting of a plate 24 car-- rying the character 25. The character is formed of cutting edges 26 which are beveled inward to meet a flat portion 27. The character members 24 are placed on the bars 21, 22, with the characters 25 facing downward. If then a sheet of cardboard such as 28 be placed on the carriage 15 and over this sheet a thin sheet of colored paper from which the design is to be out, then when the cutting characters 25 are forced down on to the cardboard sheet 28, the edges 26 will cut through the paper sheet arranged above the cardboard and the part 27 will cooperate with the cutting edges 26 to force the cut-out paper characters firmly into the surface of the cardboard 28.

To adapt thecomposing stick for inclined characters pivoted bars 29, 30 are provided connected to the memberslS and 19 respectively. When ordinaryblock characters are used these bars will be folded back into the position in which the bar 19 is illustrated in Fig. 2.

In use a sheet of cardboard such as 28 is placed on the carriage 15. Over. this, as above stated, is placed a thin sheet of colored paper from which the characters are to be cut. The characters 24 are then placed with the parts 25 face downward on the composing stick. The carriage as a whole is then displaced under the block 3. The degree of displacement can be adjusted and determined by bringing pointers such as 31'opposite the desired degree on a scale 32. The plate 5 is then displaced, whereupon the cams 7 come into engagement with the lower ends of the studs 11, so thattheblockB is forced downward against the springs 8. The block 3 will then come into contact with the upper surface of the cutting characters 21 lying on the bars 21, 22, so'that these are forced downward against the action of springs 20. The studs 11 are then sharply rotated by means of thelevers 13 to cause a further rapid descent of the block 3 to force the cutting edges 26 through the paper into thecardboard 28. It will be seen that the strength of the blowgiven by turning the levers 13 canbe' adjusted by placing having cutting edges on said base plate, pillars on said base plate, a cross piece supported by said pillars, screws on said cross piece, a block, cams on said block, means whereby said cams may be moved relatively to said screws for the purpose of depressing the block gently'on to the type characters, and means for subsequently imparting a quick movement to the block to operate its rapid descent on to said type characters.

2. In an apparatus for making show cards by cutting out characters in paper and simultaneously impressing them into the card, the combination of a base plate, type characters having cutting edges on said base plate, pillars on said base plate, a cross piece supported by said pillars, screws on said cross piece, a block guided on said pillars, springs normally supporting said block away from said base plate, cams on said block, means whereby said cams may be moved relatively to said screws for depressing the block gently on to the type characters, and means for imparting a quick movement to subsequently operate the rapid descent of said block on to said type characters.

3. In an apparatus for making show cards by cutting out characters in paper and simultaneously impressing them into the card, the combination of a base plate, type characters having cutting edges on said base plate, pillars on said base plate, a cross piece supported by said pillars, screws having steep pitched threads on said cross piece, a block guided on said pillars, springs which normally support said block away from said base plate, a plate slidably mounted on said block, cams on said plate acting with the screws so that the block may be gently moved downward, and means for turning the screws so that the block may be sharply depressed on to the type characters.

' 4. In an apparatus for making show cards by cutting out characters in paper and simultaneously impressing them into the card, the combination of a base plate, type characters having cutting edges, adjustable longitudinal members for carrying the type, adjustable side members for carrying the type, pillars on said base plate, a cross piece supported by said pillars, screws having steep pitched threads on said cross piece, a block, cams on said block, means whereby said cams may be moved relatively to said screws for the purpose of depressing the block gently on to the type characters, and means for subsequently operating the rapid descent of such block on to said type characters.

5. In an apparatus for making show cards by cutting out characters in paper and simultaneously impressing them into the card, the combination of a base plate, type characters having cutting edges, adjustable longitudinal members for carrying the type, adjustable side members for carrying the type, pillars on said base plate, a cross piece supported by said pillars, screws having steep pitched threads on said cross piece, a block guided on said pillars, springs which normally support said block away from said base plate, a plate slidably mounted on said block, cams on said plate acting with the screws so that the block may be gently moved downward, and means for turningthe screws so that the block may be sharply depressed on to the type characters.

6. In an apparatus for making show cards by cutting out characters in paper and simul taneously impressing them into the card, the combination of a base plate, a member sliding thereon, type characters having cutting edges, adjustable longitudinal members on said member for carrying the type, adjustable side members for carrying the type, pillars on said base plate, a cross piece supported by said pillars, screws having steep pitched threads on said cross piece, a block, cams 011 said block, means whereby said cams may be moved relatively to said screws for the purpose o1": depressing the block gently on to the type characters, and means for subsequently operating the rapid descent of such block on to said type characters.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto signed my name this 28th day of August 1912, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ANA'IOLE LEVECQUE.

lVitnesses ALrrroNsn MliJEAN, H. C. COXE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Eatents, Washington, D. 0. 

